Unit 18: Immigration and Identity (Grade 11 Compulsory English Solutions)- New Course

 

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B. Find the meanings of the following words in a dictionary as they are used in the text.

Melancholy:        a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

Elusive:               difficult to find, catch, or achieve.

Motif:                  a decorative image or design, especially a repeated one forming a pattern.

Disdain:               the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect.

Fabricate:             invent (something) in order to deceive.

Intoxicate:            cause (someone) to lose control of their faculties or behavior.

Resentment:         bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly.

 

Homophones

Homophones are words with the same pronunciation but have different meanings and spellings. For example, board and bored, meet and meat are homophonous.

D. Choose the right word to fill in the blanks.

a. Can you …… the box in the back garden? (bury/berry)

b. Alex could not …… the branch of the tree. (break/brake)

c. …… pencil is on the floor? (Who's/Whose)

d. We have got very …… (phew/few) tasks left.

e. Some tribes worship their gods before they …… (prey/pray)

f. …… it. Everything is messed up. (Dam /Damn)

g. What a wonderful …… the professor presented. (lesson/lessen)

Answer Key: 

a. bury, b.break c.Whose d.few e.prey f.Damn g.lesson 

Grammar

Reported speech (statements)

To change from Direct to Indirect

I                                                   S/He

We                                              They

Our                                            Their

My                                             His/Her

Now                                          Then

Here                                          There

Hereafter                                Thereafter

This                                          That

These                                        Those

Ago                                            Before

Thus                                          So

Today                                        That day

Tonight                                     That night

Last night                                the previous night

Yesterday                                 the day before

Tomorrow                               the next day

Last week                                the previous week

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Change the following into indirect speech.

a. She said, "While I was having dinner, the phone rang."

b. My friend said, "Where are they staying?"

c. Jamila said, "I travel a lot in my job."

d. She said to me, "We lived in China for five years."

e. He said to me, "Do you like ice cream?"

f. They said, "Hurray! We've won the match."

g. He said, "I'd tried everything without success, but this new medicine is great."

h. Sony said, "I go to the gym next to your house."

i. He said, "Be quiet after 10 o'clock."

j. He said, "I don't want to go to the party unless he invites me."

k. He said to me, "I will see you tomorrow if you meet me."

l. She said, "If I were you, I would give up the work."

Answer Key: 

a. She said (that) while she was having dinner, the phone rang. (simple past and past continuous in time clause (after while) do not normally change)

b. My friend asked where they were staying. (Pronoun verb position change in wh-questions)

c. Jamila said (that) she traveled a lot in her job. 

d. She told me they had lived in China for five years. 

e. He told me if I liked ice cream. (Yes/no question you should add if or whether) 

f. They exclaimed with joy that they had won the match. (Exclaimed with should be used)

g. He said (that) he had tried everything without success, but that new medicine was great. 

h. Sony said (that) she went to the gym next to my house. 

i. He asked (told) to be quiet after 10 o'clock.

j. He said that he didn't want to go to the party unless he invited him.

k. He promised (said) that he would see me the following day if I met him. 

l. She said (that) if she were me, she would give up the work.